The Judas Gate, Jack Higgins
The Judas Gate, Jack Higgins
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The Judas Gate

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Simon Vance

Abridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2011


Synopsis

Treachery has a price, in this mesmerizing thriller from the New York Times–bestselling writer.With his latest novels, Jack Higgins has showed himself “on top of his game” (Publishers Weekly), his books infused with “a timely edginess [that] pulls you along like the surprisingly strong current of the Thames River” (Associated Press). The Judas Gate is just as timely—and just as surprising.A disturbing audiotape has made its way to General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, and from him to the President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan, but not all of them—shockingly, some of them are British, and one in particular, the voice of the commander, bears an Irish accent.The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Ferguson immediately puts Sean Dillon in charge of hunting the traitor down. But Dillon has his own way of doing things and, he will eventually discover, so does his quarry. Not only will Dillon be going to war—the war will be coming to him.Filled with suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, The Judas Gate is an unforgettable novel by the man “who has produced some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years” (The San Diego Union-Tribune).

About Jack Higgins

Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rajish on May 03, 2022

This started off rather confusing to me where the characters were concerned. The author introduced sevral of them with various scenarios and for me,it became rather lost. I found it hard to follow which character he was focusing on at a given point, for maybe the first 100 pages. It did somewhat iron......more

Goodreads review by Neil on September 21, 2023

Sean Dillon volume eighteen, and after a couple of Dillon-lite instalments, Higgins gets back to basics and restores his phlegmatic anti-hero front and centre of a carefully plotted, sometimes unpredictable thriller that recalls the glory days of the earlier outings. Okay, it’s not world-class Higgi......more

Goodreads review by Tom on June 08, 2024

Same premise with a couple of new twists.......more

Goodreads review by Shevez on January 13, 2017

If I were to write a letter to this author I would say: Dear, Mr Jack Higgins, I picked out this book because it really pointed out to me there was something about it that was different. I wanted to know more about Putnam and why it was established, and what does the name of Putnam symbolize. I also......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 30, 2021

Run of the mill, formulaic adventure. I've not read previous books and as this was £18 am not sure whether I would have benefitted from reading earlier books in order to know more about some of the key characters. There seems to be repetition and unnecessary explanation of the plot in the first quar......more